# Let’s Encrypt Staging. Curl without the -k

- Link: https://www.agilicus.com/lets-encrypt-staging-curl-without-the-k/
- Published: 2019-03-28T19:40:54+00:00
- Author: Don Bowman

Are you lazy and use ‘-k’ to curl all the time when using Let’s Encrypt staging?
Or worse, use snake-oil? Or even worse, use just http for ‘test’?

    ```wp-block-preformatted
    curl -sSL https://letsencrypt.org/certs/fakelerootx1.pem > fakelerootx1.pem
    curl --cacert fakelerootx1.pem https://my-site-issued-with-le-staging
    ```

There, how hard was that? Now you can test that the cert was generated properly (
even though its not properly signed).